scholarly journals Virtual social environments as a tool for psychological assessment: Dynamics of interaction with a virtual spouse

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix D. Schönbrodt ◽  
Jens B. Asendorpf
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Real World ◽  
Psychological Assessment ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
The Real ◽  
Interaction Quality

Computer games are advocated as a promising tool bridging the gap between the controllability of a lab experiment and the mundane realism of a field experiment. At the same time, many authors stress the importance of observing real behavior instead of asking participants about possible or intended behaviors. In this article we introduce an online virtual social environment, which is inhabited by autonomous agents including the virtual spouse of the participant. Participants can freely explore the virtual world and interact with any other inhabitant, allowing the expression of spontaneous and unprompted behavior. We investigated the usefulness of this game for the assessment of interactions with a virtual spouse and their relations to intimacy and autonomy motivation as well as relationship satisfaction with the real life partner. Both the intimacy motive and the satisfaction with the real world relationship showed significant correlations with aggregated in-game behavior, which shows that some sort of transference between the real world and the virtual world took place. In addition, a process analysis of interaction quality revealed that relationship satisfaction and intimacy motive had different effects on the initial status and the time Course of the interaction quality. Implications for psychological assessment using virtual social environments are discussed.

scholarly journals Metazoa Ludens: Mixed Reality Environment for Playing Computer Games with Pets

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger K. C. Tan ◽  
Adrian David Cheok ◽  
James K. S. Teh
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Computer Game ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
The Real ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Pet Owner

For better or worse, technological advancement has changed the world to the extent that at a professional level demands from the working executive required more hours either in the office or on business trips, on a social level the population (especially the younger generation) are glued to the computer either playing video games or surfing the internet. Traditional leisure activities, especially interaction with pets have been neglected or forgotten. This paper introduces Metazoa Ludens, a new computer mediated gaming system which allows pets to play new mixed reality computer games with humans via custom built technologies and applications. During the game-play the real pet chases after a physical movable bait in the real world within a predefined area; infra-red camera tracks the pets' movements and translates them into the virtual world of the system, corresponding them to the movement of a virtual pet avatar running after a virtual human avatar. The human player plays the game by controlling the human avatar's movements in the virtual world, this in turn relates to the movements of the physical movable bait in the real world which moves as the human avatar does. This unique way of playing computer game would give rise to a whole new way of mixed reality interaction between the pet owner and her pet thereby bringing technology and its influence on leisure and social activities to the next level

Augmented Reality Berbasis Android Sebagai Media Pembelajaran Sistem Tata Surya

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Yulia Fatma ◽  
Armen Salim ◽  
Regiolina Hayami
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Real World ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Virtual Objects ◽  
Augmented Reality Technology ◽  
The Revolution

Along with the development, the application can be used as a medium for learning. Augmented Reality is a technology that combines two-dimensional’s virtual objects and three-dimensional’s virtual objects into a real three-dimensional’s  then projecting the virtual objects in real time and simultaneously. The introduction of Solar System’s material, students are invited to get to know the planets which are directly encourage students to imagine circumtances in the Solar System. Explenational of planets form and how the planets make the revolution and rotation in books are considered less material’s explanation because its only display objects in 2D. In addition, students can not practice directly in preparing the layout of the planets in the Solar System. By applying Augmented Reality Technology, information’s learning delivery can be clarified, because in these applications are combined the real world and the virtual world. Not only display the material, the application also display images of planets in 3D animation’s objects with audio.

scholarly journals From Literacy to Information Literacy: Reading for Understanding in the Real World

2021 ◽  
pp. 254-267
Author(s):  
John Royce
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Real World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Good Readers ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Complicated Process ◽  
Process Failure ◽  
Vital Component

Good readers evaluate as they go along, open to triggers and alarms which warn that something is not quite right, or that something has not been understood. Evaluation is a vital component of information literacy, a keystone for reading with understanding. It is also a complex, complicated process. Failure to evaluate well may prove expensive. The nature and amount of information on the Internet make evaluation skills ever more necessary. Looking at research studies in reading and in evaluation, real-life problems are suggested for teaching, modelling and discussion, to bring greater awareness to good, and to less good, readers.

scholarly journals Real-Life Continuous Flash Suppression - Rendering The Real World Unconscious Using Augmented Reality Goggles

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uri Korisky ◽  
Rony Hirschhorn ◽  
Liad Mudrik
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Real World ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Continuous Flash Suppression ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
The Real ◽  
Dominant Eye ◽  
Novel Variant ◽  
Real Objects

Notice: a peer-reviewed version of this preprint has been published in Behavior Research Methods and is available freely at http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-018-1162-0Continuous Flash Suppression (CFS) is a popular method for suppressing visual stimuli from awareness for relatively long periods. Thus far, it has only been used for suppressing two-dimensional images presented on-screen. We present a novel variant of CFS, termed ‘real-life CFS’, with which the actual immediate surroundings of an observer – including three-dimensional, real life objects – can be rendered unconscious. Real-life CFS uses augmented reality goggles to present subjects with CFS masks to their dominant eye, leaving their non-dominant eye exposed to the real world. In three experiments we demonstrate that real objects can indeed be suppressed from awareness using real-life CFS, and that duration suppression is comparable that obtained using the classic, on-screen CFS. We further provide an example for an experimental code, which can be modified for future studies using ‘real-life CFS’. This opens the gate for new questions in the study of consciousness and its functions.

scholarly journals A Novel Method based on Gaussianity and Sparsity for Signal Separation Algorithms

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abouzid Houda ◽  
Chakkor Otman
Keyword(s):  
Independent Component Analysis ◽  
Blind Source Separation ◽  
Real World ◽  
Source Separation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Signal Separation ◽  
Mixing Process ◽  
The Real ◽  
Input Signals ◽  
Novel Method

Blind source separation is a very known problem which refers to finding the original sources without the aid of information about the nature of the sources and the mixing process, to solve this kind of problem having only the mixtures, it is almost impossible , that why using some assumptions is needed in somehow according to the differents situations existing in the real world, for exemple, in laboratory condition, most of tested algorithms works very fine and having good performence because the  nature and the number of the input signals are almost known apriori and then the mixing process is well determined for the separation operation.  But in fact, the real-life scenario is much more different and of course the problem is becoming much more complicated due to the the fact of having the most of the parameters of the linear equation are unknown. In this paper, we present a novel method based on Gaussianity and Sparsity for signal separation algorithms where independent component analysis will be used. The Sparsity as a preprocessing step, then, as a final step, the Gaussianity based source separation block has been used to estimate the original sources. To validate our proposed method, the FPICA algorithm based on BSS technique has been used.

The Third Culture

2017 ◽  
pp. 318-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiao-Cheng (Sandrine) Han
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Real World ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Third Culture ◽  
The Real ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Third ◽  
Culture Education

The purpose of this research is to improve the understanding of how users of online virtual worlds learn and/or relearn ‘culture' through the use of visual components. The goal of this research is to understand if culturally and historically authentic imagery is necessary for users to understand the virtual world; how virtual world residents form and reform their virtual culture; and whether the visual culture in the virtual world is imported from the real world, colonized by any dominate culture, or assimilated into a new culture. The main research question is: Is the authenticity of cultural imagery important to virtual world residents? This research investigates whether visual culture awareness can help students develop a better understanding of visual culture in the real world, and whether this awareness can help educators construct better curricula and pedagogy for visual culture education.

Virtual reality: Using the virtual world to improve quality of life in the real world

2001 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Page L. Anderson ◽  
Barbara O. Rothbaum ◽  
Larry Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Real World ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
The Real

scholarly journals Social Skills Amongst MMORPG-Gamers: Empirical Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Sergeyeva ◽  
Anna Tsareva ◽  
Nadezhda Zinoveva ◽  
Olga Kononova
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
The Real ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Social Interaction Skills

The research paper addresses the issue of the impact of MMORPGs on social culture and communication skills of individuals. The mainstream discourse about computer games which take individuals away from reality and substitute the real life by the fictional one is complemented by brand new ideas, which affirm that computer games do not substitute but supplement the real life and expand its possibilities. To confirm the presented point of view we use diagnostic questionnaire of interpersonal relations by A.A. Rukavishnikov. This questionnaire is aimed to evaluate typical ways of respondent’s attitude towards other people. At this point we have 43 gamers and 29 non-gamers involved in our research, aged 18 to 57. The comparison of a user and non-user answers gives a bigger view on an overall gaming experience. In the obtained indices we note that there are no fundamental differences between MMORPGs gamers and ordinary people. During research, MMORPGs users have showed many important social interaction skills such as striving to control own actions, collaborate with others, though with a low interest in emotionally charged relationships. Authors discuss the idea about the differences between addiction and fascination among gamers.

scholarly journals Difference between the Real World and Virtual World

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Real World ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Actual World ◽  
Scientific Representation ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Difference

The development of virtual reality brings an old and historic question on the difference between the real world and unreal world. In this paper, starting from the concept of representation, I argued that what we call “virtual reality” is a representation of an actual or non-actual world and the criterion of difference between the “real world” and “virtual reality” is whether we present it with the intention of using it as a representation. After that, the thesis is demonstrated again from different theories of scientific representation. Therefore, the intuitive distinction between the “real world” and “virtual reality” can be drawn on the epistemological criterion; that is to say, the virtual world is a representation while the real world is not.

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